The Ninth Circuit has a high rate of cases being overturned by the Supreme Court.

People have a right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, and as a trial judge, I would enforce that right.

Your office has a history of interfering with agencies at the Department of Justice to prevent them from meeting with me and my staff.

Some Senators have gotten in trouble for trying to make those political interferences.

I just have one question for you, Mr. Smith.

Fair housing must be recognized as a human right.

How can you justify preventing an agency of the Government from meeting with Senators and the GAO?

Would you agree to review whether the Department's so-called policy against Ranking Members receiving Privacy Act information is required by the law?

But should you be confirmed, your political history might concern future litigants.

There is not such a thing as an institution of Government that is separate from the interests of the American people.

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in open session on Thursday, September 26, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct a hearing…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Daniel Goldberg, Samantha Aster, and Whitney Waite of my staff be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, we find ourselves in yet another ``Alice in Wonderland'' moment here in the Senate. We are again on the brink of a government shutdown for no reason other than the House Republicans' absolute obsession with repealing the…

I thank the chairman for yielding me time, and I rise in support of H.R. 3102. Madam Speaker, I'd like to explain my position with this bit of a narrative. When I came into this Congress a little over a decade ago, I was watching the…

Let us see if we can agree on the objectives we have then write a new law.

We have to do this together or it would not work.

Today's hearing marks the kickoff of the reauthorization process of the Higher Education Act here in the Senate.

Madam President, the Attorney General has recently announced that the Department of Justice will not charge certain drug offenders in a way that would trigger the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences. Before outlining some of the…